surprised - Story 144710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what were your favorite parts of your childhood?" the therapist asked, trying to get to know her new client, Ethan.

"Definitely camp," Ethan replied, "Camp Sunnyside was my everything."

The therapist, Maria, leaned forward, her face betraying no emotion. "Really? That's interesting. I spent a few summers there myself."

Ethan’s eyes widened minutely. He sat up straight, his posture stiffening. A small intake of breath escaped him. His face lost its casual, relaxed posture.

"Sunnyside?" he said, his voice flat. The comfortable office ambiance felt suddenly altered, the room now a new and different space.

Emotion: surprised

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -0.58 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.18

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion surprised. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 surprised stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the surprised emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the surprised vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`que`	0.495
`de`	0.447
`la`	0.431
`l`	0.323
`😳`	0.296

Suppressed:

`每天`	-0.269
`cheerfully`	-0.249
`ing`	-0.238
`alleviate`	-0.224
`gladly`	-0.219